us, and within a month were perfectly well, with no other treatment than a large ration of salt daily with their food.

Punishment for offenders of the black race is a very difficult matter to arrange. In the Congo Free State the men are supplied with rations while up-country, and are only paid on returning to the coast after the expiration of their term of service. Certain advances on their pay during their service are allowed, and it is almost impossible to stop this advance as a punishment, since the few things obtainable up-country are necessary to their health. Prisons, in the present state of the country, are almost an impossibility, and the substitute used of chaining the men in gangs is not only detrimental to health, but is in every way pernicious and abominable in the extreme, and should certainly not be used for any but dangerous criminals.